Students in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program

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Students	Research interests
Megan Armstrong	Psychology and Law
Angela Broadus	attitudes (particularly about substance abuse), religion, social identity, and terrorism
Joanne Brosh	Adolescent risk and health issues
Cami Brown	Risk taking behavior, decision-making, environmental psychology, romantic relationships
Kristy Cahoon	Adolescent sexuality and health (teen pregnancy, contraception, sexuality education, abortion issues); Adolescent dating violence; Policy (both state and federal) issues relating to adolescents and public health.
Lyssette Chavez	Social Psychology and the Law, Political/Moral Psychology, Intergroup Relations
Julie Chomos	Psychology and Law - Primarily interested in decision making processes
Laura Davidson	K-12 education, cultural identification and its effect on behavior, research methods, adolescent social and academic development
Bret Davis	Physical Attraction, Relationship Initiation, Relationship Commitment, Sexual Attitudes, Gender Roles, and Attitude Function
Ada Diaconu-Muresan	Feminism & Aging, Feminism & Sexuality, Research Ethics
David Flores	psychology & law, social inference, judgment & decision- making
Carlene Gonzalez	Psychology & law, judgments & decision-making, cultural & gender differences
Susan Harris	Health & Aging, Conscious Aging, Gero-transcendence & Gender Issues
Kerry Kleyman	Interracial and multiracial interactions and identities, transracial adoptions, cross-cultural research, human trafficking, stereotypes and prejudice, and identity.
Barbara Larsen	Multi-method research approaches: The intersection of qualitative and quantitative methods. Development of applied research. Trauma, Terrorism, Genocide, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, Health and Justice
Sam Lindsey	Law, Religion, Agency and Determinism, Parenting
Jennifer Lowman	Sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, social psychology of attitudes and decision making processes.
Val Lykes	gender roles and inequality, motivation and the psychology of money and happiness, religion in a social psychology context, romantic/interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and health psychology (in particular stress related studies).
Robyn Maitoza	Organizational behavior, gender, communication, group dynamics
Pete Martini	social psychology of education; political psychology; identity (race, gender, sexuality)
Aaron McVean	culture, inter-group relations, social cognition, social identity, social inequality
Anita Miko	Psychology, law, religion, policy and social justice issues
Shane Moulton	Social cognition
Ted Oleson	Institutional Economics, Agent Based Modeling and System Dynamics; Social Movements; Internet and social movements; Terrorism
Joshua Padilla	Social identity, attitude change
Amit Patel	Psychology and Law, i.e. Litigation Consulting
Clare Terese Pettis	Grief and Loss
Hector Topete	Social Psychology and Law, primary its influences on judges and juries (selection processes & attribution processes) and prison culture.
Jenny Reichert	religion, moral panics, jury decision making
Janice Russell	Feminist psychology, vicim blame as it pertains to female victims of sexual assault
Lorie Sicafuse	Psychology and Law, juvenile justice, gender, health psychology
Alexandra Sigillo	Psychology and law, specifically concerning policies and regulations dealing with children
Victoria Springer	Psychology and Law (organizational, systems), Justice (institutionalizing justice, private vs public justice), actual focus TBA
Bridgit Taylor	Sociology of religion; feminist social theory; qualitative research methods
Rebecca Thomas	Law, Deviance, Gender
Irem Uz	Individualism-collectivism, language, decision making under risk and uncertainty, ambivalent identification, self-regulatory focus & fit
Jose Vargas	social psychology and the law, social philosophy (especially the philosophy of science and philosophy of law) and culture. Specific interests include the role of media and children in the law, decision-making, social justice, cultural reproduction and ethics.
Dana Weiser	relationship attitudes, family influences on self-efficacy development, education and academic outcomes
Michael Williams	Educing Information (a.k.a. interrogation), Credibility Assessment (a.k.a. deception/honesty detection), Personality Assessment, Pedagogy of Improvisation.
Steve Wood	Psychology and Law (e.g. jury and juror decision making, attorney performance, media violence, sexual assault/aggression)